A total of 30,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Czech Republic are expected to arrive at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Sunday, according to the airport.

The Moderna doses will be flown in on a Turkish Airlines passenger flight from Istanbul, which is scheduled to land at 5:55 p.m. Sunday, an airport official said Saturday.

The official noted, however, that information on the exact number of doses and the delivery will be released by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).

The Moderna doses to be delivered to Taiwan are part of the Czech Republic’s pledged donation of up to 2.39 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to countries in the Balkans, Africa and Asia this year, which was announced by Czech Minister of Health Adam Vojtech on July 26.

To date, Taiwan has received over 10.64 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from abroad, including more than 6.64 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and nearly 4 million doses of the Moderna vaccine.

Among the Moderna doses, 2.5 million were donated by the United States, while nearly 1.5 million have been delivered from an order of 5.05 million doses placed by the government.

Besides the Czech Republic and the U.S, Japan and Lithuania have also donated 3.34 million and 20,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Taiwan, respectively.

According to data released by the CECC on Saturday, 42.22 percent of Taiwan’s 23.5 million population had received at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, and around a third of the vaccine recipients — nearly 3.42 million — were given the Moderna doses.

However, only 870,355, or 3.7 percent of the population, have received the two doses needed to be fully vaccinated, CECC data showed.

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel